Joachim von zur Gathen & Jose Luis Imana 
Arithmetic of Finite Fields [PDF ebook] 
Second International Workshop, WAIFI 2008, Siena, Italy, July 6-9, 2008, Proceedings

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Arithmetic of Finite Fields, WAIFI 2008, held in Siena, Italy, in July 2008. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 34 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on structures in finite fields, efficient finite field arithmetic, efficient implementation and architectures, classification and construction of mappings over finite fields, and codes and cryptography.